The Agape feast, or love-feast, was an early Christian religious meal in close relation with the Eucharist. It may have been separate from the Eucharist by the early second century, when Pliny the Younger reported that the Christians regularly met "on a stated day" in the early morning to "address a form of prayer to Christ, as to a divinity", and later in the day would "reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal". The connection with the Eucharist had virtually ceased by the time of Cyprian (died 258).